Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student “It can competently perform a lot of the work I need immediately,” this professor writes

“In our culture, preferring an algorithm to a trainee feels like a betrayal of the academic mission.”

That’s because it is.

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defending art's right to exist, especially nsfw art, inherenetly involves you having to allow art you don't like or even think is abhorrent or reprehensible to exist. you do not have to pretend to like it or engage with it, but you need to let it exist. you give fascists an inch they take a mile.

Sunshine

Difficult to emphasize just how much a generation of kids has been taught that being dishonest, superficial, and narcissistic is the pathway to attention and therefore success

Prohibition on Use of Reputation Risk or Other Supervisory Tools To Encourage or Compel Banking Organizations To Engage in Politicized or Unlawful Discrimination The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) is inviting public comment on a notice of proposed rulemaking (proposal or proposed rule) that would codify the removal of reputation risk ...

The Federal Reserve System (Board) is inviting public comment on new guidelines in regard to debanking of persons & orgs regarding lawful business activities perceived to present reputation risk.

Comments due by April 27, 2026.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

here's your big chance to tell certain payment processors to fuck off when it comes to being discriminatory toward creators and artists trying to make a living

lot of people on this site soaking themselves stupid making posts like "stop saying gross shit is ok" when people are very clearly saying "you are allowed to think something is absolutely vile but trusting the government/companies/paypros w the morality barometer is HISTORICALLY really dumb"

Remember to go for the top if you want someone to yell at

Huh!

Love a good story of rich tech bros being told they & their money can go fuck themselves.

Thinking about their reaction to people turning down millions they would jump on & being confused as to why since money is all they know is something I love just a little bit more.

Federal Reserve Board - Proposal Details The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art)

Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money

www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

this is your chance to say something about payment processors' recent crackdown on art! it's completely free and only takes a few minutes! (you also can choose to remain anonymous if you wish, which is very convenient)

Our culture has a contingency which is obsessed with finding the magic phrase which will turn off bigotry but look, there just isn't one.

Which is why we need both systems to prevent that bigotry from shaping policy and a culture which shuns and shames those who are bigoted.

It's funny to me that the more and more heavy censorship gets pushed onto the public the more I find myself being okay and supportive of people just drawing whatever the fuck they want.
I respect the freaks more than these withered old fucks, at least they've done more for me.

I also wanna insist: I'm using a YouTube video as a talking point, but I've seen this exact kind of thing in Discord servers. This is beyond just YouTubers.

YouTube video from @TopicArlo Struggling With The Reality That We May Not Get a Direct Any Time Soon 40k views - 19 hours ago

I'll be honest the more I see this kind of thing the more I think Nintendo should stop doing Directs at all
Hype just looks like a drug to these people, they are just missing the point of those Directs. Play the games that are already out ffs.

In case you're looking for some extra cash . . .

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

All these who voted "yes" you have a chance to either contact them to try to convince them that these laws don't work or also vote against them so they don't get re elected

The fight is so neck and neck that a few reps could make a difference

You need to call your reps and demand that they OPPOSE:

-the KIDS Act
-KOSA
-the Screen Act
-Sammy's Law
-the App Store Accountability Act

And additionally, oppose:

-reforming/sunsetting Section 230
-online age verification/ID laws

www.congress.gov/members/find...

This quote isnt just out of touch or disappointing, its fucking dark. Gay people are not a conversation parents need to have with their kids? Knowing gay people exist doesnt require therapy??

Any parents who thinks that way needs to have their kids removed ASAP. Get in a volcano, Pete.

Yesterday, the KIDS Act has Passed the E&C, and soon will be pushing into the house! This is a combination of KOSA, SCREEN Act, App Store Accountability Act, and other bills into one package.

Contact your Reps, and tell them to OPPOSE these bills! Stay strong, and fight for your rights and privacy!

Awesome comm i got from my friend @mcgregskulls.bsky.social who deserves one million money and lotus flower reincarnations

estrogenuinely locked in

The Internet as we know it right now, is very much in danger. The things you are doing here now, in this space, may be locked off from you for no reason. And these big tech companies? They can't WAIT to restrict you.

We can't sit by and let out of touch politicians and big companies take this space

nothing has made this clearer to me than the fact that everyone on the bsky development team all seem to fucking use Claude

which, if you're not aware, Claude is a whitewashed chatGPT that people use because they're aware of the rep chatGPT has, but still can't work without it

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

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